Amazon S3 vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 11.4% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 6.7% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Amazon S3

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98% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Amazon S3 and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP compete in the cloud storage solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand due to its advanced data management capabilities, while Amazon S3 excels in cost-effectiveness and ease of use. User reviews indicate higher overall satisfaction with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

Features: Amazon S3 users value its scalability, integration options, and cost-effectiveness. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is appreciated for features like snapshots, cloning, and tiering. Advanced data management capabilities make NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP stand out compared to Amazon S3's basic storage functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Amazon S3 users highlight the need for improved performance, more comprehensive support, and enhanced security features. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users request more intuitive setup processes, better documentation, and streamlined updates. The complexities in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's setup are more frequently mentioned as an area needing improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon S3 is praised for its straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's deployment is perceived as more complex, requiring better initial guidance. Despite this, users find the customer service for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to be responsive and helpful.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon S3 offers an affordable solution with good ROI, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP may have higher setup costs, but users feel the investment is justified by its robust features and functionality. Amazon S3 is considered cost-effective, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides greater value through advanced capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (10th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 is 11.4%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 6.7%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Vagner Martins

Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Enhanced data security with seamless integration and static website capabilities

S3 is a great service offering numerous possibilities. It allows for storing objects and files of various types. I appreciate its capability to create static websites and integrate with services like CloudFront, EC2, and DynamoDB. Despite being focused on security, I leverage features such as cryptography and integration with CloudTrail.

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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at Evolent Health

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"S3 is well suited for both big and little data repositories of objects ranging from backup to archive to active video images and much more."

"Amazon S3 is easily scalable and provides fantastic performance, especially in comparison to other cloud solutions like OCI and Azure."

"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 for me is static deployment; it doesn't charge much, and I can integrate CloudFront for DNS and routing. It is very useful and affordable."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is its flexibility as a solution to suit many different use cases."

"You don't have to specify your clone, availability clone, or your locations. Everything's over there. They have a receipt for the instance where we have to select the exact location of what we are clicking. The S3 storage capacity is high, and the price is reasonable."

"The integration with Cloudfront helps in fetching the static phase and default phases in case our actual service is down."

"We appreciate that this solution is relatively easy to use, straightforward, and reliable."

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"It's very easy to set up, and within 40 minutes, you can apply storage notes in Azure."

"The main benefit we get from this product is the ability to deploy it anywhere we want, whether that's on-prem, a remote physical location, or in the cloud. It doesn't matter from an operational perspective where it is. The command line and operating system are the same."

"It offers ease of use and a comprehensive suite of applications, including features like SnapMirror, SnapVault, and unified snapshot management, all bundled into a single product."

"The ability for our users to restore data from the Snapshots is very valuable."

"This solution has made everything easier to do."

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."

"CVO gives us the ability to access data as quickly as possible, which is critical because of the mission set we handle. Some things cannot wait. For example, we tried having the data in the cloud itself, but it took too long for us to retrieve it from cold or deep storage. If we have it ONTAP or on-prem, it's so much easier to pull it within minutes."

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Cons

"Sometimes, there is latency in getting data, especially if the file size is large."

"In the next release, I think that it would be good to have wizards that would update into specific applications, for example, a one-touch configuration in Pagemaker."

"The solution's pricing should be modified to automatically expand storage based on prior usage."

"The support is better than other cloud providers but sometimes it takes a while to have a resolution to our issues."

"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."

"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."

"Maybe it could be a bit cheaper."

"There is a limitation with the data upload size, such as the five terabytes restriction. I would like to see an increase in the data upload limit, similar to DynamoDB, where there is no data limit."

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"We want to be able to add more than six disks in aggregate, but there is a limit of the number of disks in aggregate. In GCP, they provide less by limiting the sixth disk in aggregate. In Azure, the same solution provides 12 disks in an aggregate versus GCP where it is just half that amount. They should bump up the disk in aggregate requirement so we don't have to migrate the aggregate from one to another when the capacities are full."

"I'm very happy with the solution, the only thing that needs improvement is the web services API. It could be a little bit more straightforward. That's my only issue with it. It can get pretty complex."

"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."

"Cloud Volumes ONTAP's interface could use an overhaul. Sometimes you have to dig around in Cloud Manager a little bit to find certain things. The layout could be more intuitive."

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."

"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."

"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is very inexpensive at 50 cents per gigabyte, per month."

"The cost depends on the data we access."

"With S3 Standard, there is not a charge for deletion of objects."

"The cost of storage is cheap. However, the cost to have a better interface can get expensive. We are using Athena for this purpose and if we did some heavy queries the cost will start adding up. When the Athena query is running, it will scan the bucket and they charge for how many GBs we are going to scan. The function of scanning has a lot of costs attached to it, this is a negative point."

"The price of Amazon S3 is competitive with other solutions."

"For pricing, I would give it a six or seven out of ten."

"The cost of Amazon S3 is low. For R & D purposes there is a free option available. There is a license needed to use the solution."

"There is a license to use Amazon S3."

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"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."

"The cost is quite high."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"It is expensive. There are no costs in addition to their standard licensing fees."

"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

77%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

55%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon S3?

We can easily connect to the AWS resources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon S3?

S3 is a pay-as-you-go service. I pay based on the data volume I am using.

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3?

There is a limitation with the data upload size, such as the five terabytes restriction. I would like to see an increase in the data upload limit, similar to DynamoDB, where there is no data limit.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

S3, Simple Storage Service

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

NetApp

Sample Customers

Netflix, Airbnb, Thomson Reuters, Zillow, Alert Logic

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